The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may imagine that there might be little desire for going to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In fact, it seems to be working the other way around, with the desperate market circumstances creating a greater eagerness to bet, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the situation.
For almost all of the citizens living on the tiny nearby earnings, there are 2 popular forms of gambling, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the winnings are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that the majority do not purchase a ticket with the rational belief of profiting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the English soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, mollycoddle the extremely rich of the country and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a incredibly large tourist business, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market collapse and associated violence have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which contain gaming tables, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and conflict that has resulted, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions improve is simply unknown.
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